É

É, é (e-acute) is a letter of the Hungarian, Icelandic, Kashubian, Czech, Slovak, and Uyghur languages. This letter also appears in Catalan, Danish, English, French, Irish, Italian, Occitan, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Vietnamese language as a variant of the letter “e”.

Usage in various languages

Icelandic

É is the 7th letter of the Icelandic alphabet and represents /jɛː/.

Italian

É is a variant of E carrying an acute accent; it represents an /e/ carrying the tonic accent. It is used only if it's the last letter of the word. Example: perché (why, /per'ke/). Compare with caffè (coffee, /kaf'fɛ/), which has a grave accent. It also distinguishes the generic 'e', meaning 'and', from the third person verb 'to be', 'é', meaning, 'is'.

Hungarian

É is the 10th letter of the Hungarian alphabet and represents /eː/.

Czech and Slovak

É is the 5th letter of the Czech alphabet and Slovak alphabet, and represents /ɛː/.

Kashubian

É is the 8th letter of the Kashubian alphabet and represents /ɛ/. It also represents [ej] in some dialects, and represents [i]/[ɨ] in area between Puck and Kartuzy.

Vietnamese

In Vietnamese alphabet é is the sắc tone (high-rising tone) of “e”.

Chinese

In Chinese pinyin é is the yángpíng tone (阳平, high-rising tone) of “e”.

Uyghur

In Latin-Script Uyghur alphabet (Uyghur Latin Yéziqi̡, ULY), é represents /e/.

English

In English it has some uses, mostly in words of French origin such as Café and Sautée, and names such as Beyoncé and Théo. Pokémon, the media franchise owned by Japanese corporation Nintendo has also come into common use.

Dutch

Similar to English, é is respected when writing foreign languages; mainly from French. It is also used to differentiate the article "een" which is equivalent to "a" en English and "éen" which is the number one.

French

The letter é is always pronounced [e], like the a in "cake" in English, except without the "y" sound at the end.

“É”, the upper-case version of “é”, has lost some use in French due to typographical reasons. “E” can be sometimes used in its place, when the accented “é” is unavailable “E” is sometimes used to represent it. For example “ÉCOLE” becomes "ECOLE". This practice is not common with native speakers of the language who will usually have either a French (AZERTY) or Canadian French (QWERTY with accents) keyboard layout that allows them to easily type all needed accents.

Danish, Norwegian and Swedish

In Danish, Norwegian and Swedish the letter “é” is used to indicate that a terminal syllable with the vowel e is stressed, and is often written out only when it changes the meaning. See Acute accent for a more detailed description.

Spanish

In Spanish, é is an accented letter, pronounced just like "e" is. Both é and e sound like /e/.

Character mappings

Windows users can type an "é" by holding the "Alt" key down and dialing either 130 or 0233 (on the numeric pad of the keyboard): alt + 130; alt + 0233. Windows users can type "É" by holding the "Alt" key down and dialing either 144 or 0201.

On US International and UK English keyboard layouts users can more simply access the acute accent letter 'É' by holding down the "AltGR" key whilst typing the 'E' key on the keyboard. This method can also be applied to many other acute accented letters which do not appear on the standard US English keyboard layout.

In Microsoft Word, a user can press Ctrl + ' (apostrophe), then E for "é".

On Mac OS X a user can hold option and press e to get ´, then press e and they will get é.

In X Window using a compose key, a user can press the compose key followed by ' (apostrophe) and e (in either order) to get é.

To output an é in html you should use the html entity é

See also

• Acute accent

External links

• Omniglot - writing systems & languages of the world
  • Hungarian language
  • Icelandic language
  • Kashubian language
  • Czech language
  • Slovak language
  • Uyghur language